LATE WIRES.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 29, 23 March 1906, Page 3

LATE WIRES.

—0~0“" BRITISH POLITICS. Mr Agustine Birrell, President of the Board of Education, in reply to a question, said a penny free meal for school children would limpose 3|d in the £ on the London rates. GENERAL. Thousands of persons were killed through the recent earthquake in Eormosa. The whole island was shaken. Several towns were completely destroyed. The damage is estimated at nine millions sterling. The editor of the Russian newspaper Novosti was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for offences against the press laws The paper was permanently suppressed London newspapers publish further cablegrams in protest against the proposed vote of censure on Lord Milner in connection with the flogging of Chinese. The loss on the telegraph service of the United Kingdom for the year just ended was £987,939 A Sydney cable yesterday says that a heavy easterly gale was raging at Norfolk Island. Considerable damage has been done to property. A number of buildings have been unroofed. The centenary celebration of the foundation of Launceston, Tasmania, was a great success. The steamer Essex, which has arrived at Auckland from Liverpool, brought a batch of sixty-nine immigrants to the colony. ? The military affairs programme of the International Exhibition, covering an. allotment of £4OO for prizes, has been agreed to by the commissioners. The recommendations of the sports committee covering an expenditure of £1134 have aiso been approved.